Monday, December 14, 2015

World’s Fastest Password Cracking Tool Hashcat Is Now Open Source

http://fossbytes.com/worlds-fastest-password-cracking-tool-is-now-open-sourceShort Bytes:
The world’s fastest cracking tool Hashcat is now open source. The
company has called it a very important step and listed out the reasons
that inspired them to take this step.If
you are into password cracking, you might be aware of the fact that
Hashcat is one of the most popular CPU-password recovery tools that is
available for free. Hashcat is known for its speed and versatile nature
to crack multiple types of hashes.Now, going one step ahead,
Hashcat has taken an important step of making Hashcat and oclHashcat
open source. Hashcat is a CPU-based password recovery tool
and oclHashcat is a GPU-accelerated tool.

In
its latest blog post, Hashcat mentions the reasons behind this step.
Whenever any software decides to go open source, the license matters the
most. Hashcat used the MIT license, that allowed an easy integration or
packaging of the common Linux distros, along with packages for Kali
Linux.
Due to the adoption of open source path, now
it’ll be easier to integrate external libraries in Hashcat. At the
moment, hashcat/oclHashcat doesn’t need any external libraries, but if
the need arises, now you’ve got the option.
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Mentioning
another major improvement, Hashcat writes that before going open
source, there was no native support for OS X as Apple doesn’t support
“offline” compiling of the kernel code. With open source license, now
you can easily compile the kernels using Apple OpenCL Runtime JIT.
According to the company, another inspiration for going open source was the implementation of bitsliced DES GPU kernels.
Hashcat offers multiple types of attack modes. Take a look: